Details emerge of underwater rescue

Incredible footage has emerged of a underwater rescue of a ship’s prepare found alive after spending 3 days in an atmosphere slot of his fallen ship. Courtesy GlobalLeaks

EXTRAORDINARY video shows a impulse divers detected a male reputed passed 3 days after his vessel sank though who survived by anticipating an an atmosphere pocket.

The video, that has given been taken down from YouTube, shows a extraordinary impulse where Okene Harrison’s palm reached out and touches a diver’s hand. The dive group afterwards finds Mr Harrison’s atmosphere slot and a prepare looking totally tired after spending 3 days underwater.

The yank vessel prepare was propitious to find a underwater atmosphere slot after his vessel sank off Nigeria’s coast.

Of a 11 others who were aboard a yank when it sank in severe seas on May 26, 10 have been found passed and one stays missing. The hunt operation has given been called off.

Okene Harrison, 29, managed to fist into a cell after a Chevron-contracted yank sank and staid inverted 30 metres underwater. The Nigerian was brought to a aspect after 62 hours.

“The rescue operation involving helicopters and other vessels swung into movement roughly immediately,” sea and appetite attention specialists DCN, whose divers eventually detected Mr Harrison, pronounced in a statement.“At that time, there was no snippet of a organisation members … As internet reports about a collision continued to develop, a realization grew among a divers that there could still be survivors of a Jascon 4, trapped in an atmosphere pocket.”

Divers from a firm, whose operations are formed in a Netherlands, operative on a plan some 17 sailing hours divided were eventually systematic to conduct to a collision site.

A yank vessel cook, Okene Harrison, is detected alive by divers 3 days after his vessel sank off Nigeria’s coast.

“Once during a collision site, a divers detected that a mutilate was upside down, and a prepare on house a Jascon 4 was indeed trapped in an atmosphere slot in a still total compartment,” DCN said.

“After 62 hours trapped in a atmosphere pocket, he was brought to a aspect protected and good by a divers from DCN.”

A male who identified himself as Harrison’s cousin, Maxwell Ewoma, pronounced that Mr Harrison had been taken to a southern city of Warri.

He pronounced a prepare was doing good deliberation a resources and that doctors had systematic him to rest.

The yank vessel had sunk off southern Nigeria’s Escravos, a site of a Chevron oil terminal. Chevron had pronounced that complicated sea swells caused a yank to capsize.

Okene Harrison’s palm reaches out and grabs that of a diver inspecting a shipwreck.

According to a operator, West African Ventures Limited, a yank was concerned in towing a tanker during a time.Nigeria is Africa’s biggest oil producer, with Chevron among a vital operators in a country.